Gun-Dec, Japanese Version of Vice: Project Doom, Translation Released!

28 February 2015 9:52PM EST - Update by Pennywise

Today we have finished our translation of Gun-Dec, the Japanese version of Vice: Project Doom. This game has always been on our radar out of simple curiosity to see whether or not the translation was ever any good. As it turns out, it wasn’t. In addition to the usual censorship, there are parts of the translation that are completely made up and don’t follow the original text at all. Sure there are parts where the translation is relatively faithful, but taken as a whole, the official is not very good. Surprise, surprise.

This release is about a month’s worth of work starting about a month ago and was designed to get us back on the groove for future projects. From a technical perspective, all that needed to be done was expand the ROM and relocate part of the text into the expanded area to provide us with almost unlimited space (for the purposes of this translation) for our translation. Then we began text revision phase and now release!

By the way, we are almost ready to start testing The Legend of the Double Moon for the NES. It’s an excellent DQ clone and probably rivals that of DQ itself. If you’ve offered to help before or would like to help testing, please let us know!

P.S. If anyone can explain the title Gun-Dec, we’d love to know what it could possibly mean. The current thinking is that Dec is some sort of weird Japanese abbreviation for detective.

P.P.S. The title Vice: Project Doom wasn’t completely made up. When you boot up the game and get the title in an 8×16 font, VICE is stored with GUN-DEC in the same CHR section.

Final Fantasy IV Namingway Edition Released

25 February 2015 10:42PM EST - Update by Rodimus Primal

Based on vivify93’s Project II comes Final Fantasy IV Namingway Edition. Now as a separate project, this hack aims to rename all the spells, items, monsters, etc as close to modern naming as possible. This was done with either abbreviations or other means. Also added to this, was a functional B Button Dash. Spell rates are reverted back to the original, and monsters (including the final boss) are restored to their original Final Fantasy IV difficulty.

Wizardry Empire for the Game Boy Color now in English!

19 February 2015 12:00AM EST - Update by mrrichard999

Hello all! Here to announce an English translation release for Wizardry Empire for the Game Boy Color! Now you can enjoy playing this dungeon crawler that was unreleased in the English language whether on the go or in your home! Also stay tuned for the next release! We are currently working on Wizardry Empires II - Legacy of the Princess for PC & Wizardry Empire - The Staff of Resurrection for the Game Boy Color!

IPS Peek Version 0.6.0 Released

12 February 2015 11:19PM EST - Update by vectorman

IPS Peek, the IPS patch analysis tool, has been updated to version 0.6.0.

This is really the last version that requires downloading a zip in order to update. From now on, notifications of new versions will be shown from within the application. Automatic updating is also now supported.

The bug that existed in version 0.5.0 causing patch report exporting to fail has also been fixed.

Earthbound hack "MaternalBound" released

11 February 2015 9:22PM EST - Update by HowlingWolf14

MaternalBound is an Earthbound hack whose ultimate goal is to make Earthnound as closely to Mother 2 as possible. By uncensoring the game and also changing title screens to the original counterparts, the game will be a proper american version of Mother 2.